But now Perrie is speaking out and making it a clear that, whether Zayn was a jerk during their relationship or not, "Hair" was not written with him in mind. According to the Little Mix singer, the timeline simply doesn't fit.

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"People like to write a lot of crap," Perrie told Ryan Seacrest. "Basically you say something and it gets taken out of context and then it makes a headline… but what they didn't work out was we wrote the album before that happened."

Check out the interview below.

Guess that mystery is cleared up. Still, it's prob safe to say the catchy bop about getting your pesky ex out of your head might be pretty cathartic for Perrie to perform in her current situation, whether it was inspired by Zayn or not .

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